Sailor Moon Mysteries
Why aren't the Scouts recognized by friends and family, why do their attacks take sooooo long.  Well here is where I will *try* answer these questions.  Now remember these are just my thoughts of possible solutions, I too don't really know what the explanation is, I am just hypothesizing.  If you have a question you want me to try and answer e-mail and if I can come up with a somewhat plausible explanation I'll post it.

Q:  Why don't people recognize Sailor Mercury as Amy or Sailor Mars as Raye, ect.?
A:  Well this is basically explained in "A Crystal Clear Destiny."  Remember the scene where Mina meets the Amy, Raye, and Lita at Raye's temple for the Scout meeting.  Well when she arrives she says "Is this the Sailor Scout meeting?" and Raye says "Who are you."  Well this proves that the Sailor Scouts look different when they turn into Sailor Scouts than when they are in "normal" mode.  Thus no one can recognize them.
Q:  How come when the Scouts are transforming or attacking they aren't attacked by the enemy and defeated?
A:  Well for the transformation part they don't take that long to transform because in "A Crystal Clear Destiny" when Serena transformed to prevent her and Darien from being burnt to a crisp the fire ball didn't scorch  them which means she must have transformed quickly but we got to see it slowed down.  Or when they transform since it is magic that transforms them (I can find no logical scientific explanation) maybe time itself is slowed down (perhaps by Pluto).  Now attacks seem to be much like transformations because in "Tuxedo Unmasked" when Mercury is trying to get the dark crystal back from Tuxedo Mask she uses her bubble attack only she doesn't go through the long performance.  Again we probably see it slowed down.
Q:  Why do Serena and Mina look and act alike?
A:  I myself wondered this question.  When I went on vacation and came back and saw Mina for the first time I thought something weird happened to Serena.  Well on with my answer.  The main reason they look alike is because Mina was Serena's personal body gaurd in the Silver Millenium.  That way she could impersonate her in times of danger.  Remember the episode when Sailor Venus pretended to be Sailor Moon so Kaolite didn't attack Serena.  Another reason that they may look and act alike is that the planet Venus is very similar to Earth (yes I know Serena is from the Moon but bear with me) the only reason that Earth isn't exactly like Venus is that we have an atmosphere.  Without the atmosphere we would be a 900 degree lava desert.  So since Venus and Earth are a lot alike, Mina and Serena will be a lot alike.
Q:  Why do the bad guys (Negaverse, Dark Moon Family, ect) always attack Tokyo?
A:  Well perhaps the bad guys attack Tokyo because they need to defeate the Sailor Scouts before overthrowing the world, thus since the Sailor Scouts live in Tokyo they attack Tokyo.  Another explanation could be that they attack all around the world and the Sailor Scouts use their Sailor Teleport to transport themselves there but we (the viewers) only get to see the Tokyo battles.
Q:  Where do the Sailor Scouts uniforms go to when they transform and where does their scout uniform come from?  And where do Sailor Moon's Crescent Moon Wand, Moon Scepter, and locket come from?
A:  Okay this is the best answer I can give for the outfit.  If you have seen Quantum Leap then you know what I am talking about.  In Quantum Leap, Sam (a time traveler) jumps from one moment in time to the next.  Sam teleports into other peoples bodies to fix their mistakes.  He teleports from a room called the waiting room.  The waiting room is the place where the person he teleported into's body goes.  Well my thesis is that when the Scouts transform their normal clothes replace their Scout uniform and their Scout uniform replaces their clothes.  This is what I also think might happen with Sailor Moon's Scepter and Wand only she just calls for them when needed and then when not needed anymore they return from where they came.  Sailor Moon wears her locket on her Scout uniform.  If you don't understand this you should watch Quantum Leap and then maybe you'll understand.
**Remember these are just some possible solutions that I have came up with, they aren't the actual explanation.**